Whitechapel announce Fall 2025 U.S. Tour including stop in Orlando on December 6
- Alastair Mac
- May 30
- 4 min read
Deathcore veterans Whitechapel have announced they’ll be hitting the road later this year for a fall U.S. tour celebrating their latest album, Hymns in Dissonance.
Whitechapel have announced a Fall 2025 tour, the Rituals of Hate tour will see the band perform their new album Hymns in Dissonance in its entirety throughout the run.
An impressive lineup of support will see Bodysnatcher, Angelmaker, and Disembodied Tyrant support Whitechael throughout the trek, which kicks off November 12 in Norfolk, Virginia, with shows in New York City, St. Louis, Orlando, Nashville and more.
Whitechapel will take to the stage at House of Blues Orlando on Saturday, December 6, with tickets on sale now.
The band shared, “After the overwhelming responses from the Hymns in Dissonance release, we decided it would be great to close out the year by giving this album to the fans live front to back. "
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Whitechapel, who formed in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 2006, has seen the core lineup-vocalist Phill Bozeman; guitarists Ben Savage, Zach Householder and Alex Wade; bassist Gabe Crisp-intact since 2007, with the exception of the drummer Brandon Zackey, who has been playing with the band since 2022. While Hymns in Dissonance follows 2021's Kin chronologically, the new album is actually somewhat of a sequel to This is Exile thematically, the three-word title Hymns in Dissonance representing that correlation.
Whitechapel started writing for the new album at Householder's studio in June of 2023, following the band's headlining tour for The Valley. Whitechapel stuck to a strict weekday schedule, the structure allowing for maximum creativity and minimum burnout. Householder produced Hymns in Dissonance, which allowed the musicians to seamlessly switch gears from preproduction to recording the full album without skipping a beat. The guitarist shadowed producer Mark Lewis a lot over the last five Whitechapel albums and bringing that influence inside the band is a "full circle" moment for Householder and Whitechapel. "It's cool that we can be self-sufficient and produce a record of this magnitude ourselves; not a lot of bands can say that."
Every detail on HID matters. "With song sequencing we like to try to make our albums as dynamic as possible," Wade says. "We like to give the records a roller-coaster effect toggling the energy of the tracks up and down to keep the listener interested." It was likewise critical that the album art tied into the music in a visceral, provocative way, or has Bozeman put it, "something simple but unsettling with a very classic feel. But not over the top with too many things to look at." Guitarist Savage mocked up ideas for an eerie mask that would represent the cult leader in the album's story. Whitechapel chose artist Rob Borbas, the European tattoo artist known as "Grind Design," to create the cover. "He specializes in dark/cryptic tattoos, and we felt he would be able to take Savage's idea with the mask and bring it to life," Whitechapel explains. "He certainly met our expectations with a dark, evil, ominous piece that makes you question 'what is that?' when you look at it. We wanted the cover to be mysterious until you know more about the story of the album and how the cover applies to it." Hymns in Dissonance sees the band reinventing themselves, going darker, deeper and heavier. While the songs all stand powerfully on their own, the throughline Bozeman says that "more than likely there will be a tour where we play the album from front to back."
Longtime fans will detect hints of the past within the brutality. To wit: the riff-tastic "Hate Cult Ritual" is the only song on the album with Drop A tuning, the tuning the first three Whitechapel albums used. Additionally, the Hymns in Dissonance chapter in Bozeman's life finds the frontman living through his "past times," or as he states, "the music that brought me here. Brutal, dark, aggressive, heavy music. Death metal, black metal, speed metal, etc. I truly believe that your roots call you back at some point in your life and this is that point in my life."
Vocally, the recording process allowed Bozeman to achieve all his goals. "Recording was on our time, so if I wasn't feeling it on a certain day, then I'd just stop, reset and go again the following day. I honed in more on the progression of the screaming vocals that I'm known for," the singer says. "I really reworked my high vocals and tried some new different types of tones with my voice. Basically, a new-age feel to a classic sound."
At this stage in the game, the name Whitechapel commands the ultimate respect. Already sitting on one of the most enviable catalogs in contemporary metal, in 2019 they dropped The Valley, highlighting a confident evolution in their sound and standing as a true landmark release that sets a new standard for the genre. With Bozeman exploring childhood trauma on 2019's The Valley, it was their darkest release to-date. But with its 2021 successor, Kin, the story was darker still.
With those chapters of Bozeman's life exorcised lyrically, Hymns in Dissonance mines a darkness that's not lyrically personal. And, says Wade, "I don't think HID follows Kin musically at all. If anything, it's the polar opposite. For this album it was fun to be able to just let loose and write ignorantly heavy music again. This album stands on its own," Wade concludes. "Phil was able to create a fresh story to write about, which, in turn, helped us write music with a fresher sound."
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